PGA Championship odds: Johnson betting favorite

The 100th PGA Championship is also the end of an era of sorts this week as it’s the last time for the foreseeable future that the PGA will be the last of golf’s four major championships on the Tour calendar. Starting next year, the tournament will be the second major as it moves to May, following the Masters (April) but ahead of the U.S. Open (July) and British Open (August).

Odds courtesy of OddsShark.com

It’s probably a smart move shifting the PGA Championship to May because it somewhat gets lost in the grand scheme of things in the United States where it currently is thanks to football starting up. The PGA Championship is the least-heralded of the major championships but generally has the best overall field.

This year’s PGA Championship is held at Bellerive Country Club outside St. Louis. It also hosted this event in 1992 when Nick Price won at 6-under 278 (the first of this three career major wins), but the course barely resembles that version as it underwent a major renovation in 2006 and then additional modifications five years ago. The signature holes on the course are 14-16, known as “the Ridge” as they all play into a prevailing southerly wind.